Tag: Zika

What is the most dangerous animal in the world? Well, the calculation is not so simple to make. What do you count? Direct deaths, habitat destruction, years of illness? I suppose, in many cases, humans would top the list. However, when it comes to infectious diseases, mosquitoes are head and shoulders above everyone else. While […]

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Over the last two years Zika virus has emerged as one of the major global health threats. Even though the virus has been known since 1947, when it was first isolated from a rhesus monkey in Zika forest in Uganda, only recently has it become a major research interest. Generally, Zika virus infections in healthy […]